New York City (NY), Columbia University - Butler Library - Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton MS 040A

Cantus Siglum

US-NYcub Plimpton MS 040A

Holding Institution

New York City (NY), Columbia University - Butler Library - Rare Book and Manuscript Library (US-NYcub)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Fifteenth-century folio from a gradual originating in Brescia, Italy. Square notation on 4-line ink-ruled red staves. 540 x 382 mm with seven lines of text and music in Gothic script.

Liturgical Occasions

Petri, Pauli (Peter and Paul, Apostles).

Description

This mid-15th-century (1450–1475) gradual originates from Brescia, Italy, and was used by the secular canons of the congregation of S. Giorgio in Alga at their Brescian house, S. Pietro in Oliveto. The manuscript features square notation on 4-line red staves and contains a fragment of the mass for Sts. Peter and Paul (29 June). It consists of 1 parchment folio, measuring 540 x 382 mm, and follows the secular liturgical cursus. The manuscript is notable for its 3-line historiated initial depicting blue-vested canons kneeling before Sts. Peter and Paul. (Description based on information from Digital Scriptorium 1.0)

Foliated with a red XXV in the right margin of the recto.

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment